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Crisis
in Maharashtra: Opposition demands dismissal of Chavan Ministry
Monday November 01, 2010 05:05:35 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
A delegation of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and
Shiv Sena in Maharashtra Monday urged Governor K. Sankaranarayanan
to sack the government headed by Chief Minister Ashok Chavan over
corruption allegations.
The 12-member delegation led by Leader of Opposition Eknath Khadse
alleged that the ministers and officials in the ruling Democratic
Front government were involved in corruption and scandals and,
therefore, the government should be sacked immediately.
Khadse apprised the governor of the alleged scams pertaining to
the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Mumbai, the private
Lavasa Lake city in the Konkan, the Ramoshi Watan land in Pune
among others.
The team also urged Sankaranarayanan that action should be
initiated against the bureaucrats involved in the alleged scams.
The delegation comprised of BJP leaders Sudhir Mungantiwar,
Pandurang Phundkar, Vinod Tawade and Sardar Tara Singh besides the
Shiv Sena's Subhash Desai, Diwakar Rawte, Vinod Ghosalkar and
Ravindra Waikar.
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi has
constituted a two-member Congress party team of Defence Minister
A.K. Antony and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to go into the
Adarsh housing society controversy.
The panel will find out how were the flats in the 32-storeyed
building in south Mumbai, originally meant for families of
soldiers killed in the 1999 Kargil conflict with Pakistan, were
allotted to politicians, bureaucrats and military officials.
A delegation of the Samajwadi Party led by its state president Abu
Asim Azmi and other Dalit and Republican parties is scheduled to
call on the governor later Monday, seeking the dismissal of the
Chavan government and registration of criminal cases against
ministers and bureaucrats involved in the housing society scam.
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